CV

Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival, 2018, for my pilot, “TWEED”

Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival, 2017, for my Black Mirror Spec, “Life Goes On.”

Screenplays

Once out of Nature, Feature (in progress)While trench warfare rages on the mainland, a fisherman’s daughter must find her missing father after he’s abducted by demons, and come to terms with her strange new powers.

TWEED, one-hour pilotA political science professor at a New England university is hoping to secure tenure, but he’s hiding an alcohol addiction, his department nemesis aims to get him replaced, his wife wants to move back to NYC, and there’s been a murder on campus which the police want to question him about.

Franklins, one-hour pilotBenjamin Franklin raises his bastard son William and the two develop a strong father son bond, but when the revolutionary war breaks out, they find themselves on opposite sides of the battlefield.

Billions, “The Candidate” SpecAfter a shooting at his kids' private school, Axe decides to do something about gun violence, throwing him into direct conflict with Chuck, who's contemplating running for governor on the same issue.

Black Mirror, “Life Goes On,” SpecIn a world where immortality is the norm, a woman is granted permission to have a child. When the child dies through a tragic accident, she gets involved with a cult of ‘mortalists’ and must confront the nature of mortality.

Teaching Experience

Post-Doctoral fellow at Harvard University, July 2013 - June 2015

Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis, August 2011 – June 2013

Teaching Assistant at Georgetown University (Doha, Qatar Campus), August 2009 – June 2010

“Learning from Franklin’s Mistakes: Self-Interest Rightly Understood in the Autobiography” The Review of Politics ( 2014).

“War, Madness and Death: The Paradox of Honor in Hobbes’s Leviathan” The Journal of Politics (January 2014).

“Hell and Anxiety in Hobbes’s Leviathan” The Review of Politics (2011).

“No Country for Old Gods” Perspectives on Political Science (2010).

“Stopping to Smell the Roses: Rousseau and Mortality in the Modern World” Perspectives on Political Science (2008).

“Reconstructing Islam in a Post-Metaphysical Age: Muhammad Iqbal’s Interpretation of Immortality” in Muhammad Iqbal: Essays on the Reconstruction of Modern Muslim Thought, with the University of Edinburgh Press (2015),